Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 30

"You had better not look at me in that way," said the soldier; "you will make your eyes water;" and then he seated him also upon the apron, and opened the chest.

Who acts: You, soldier · What happens: have, not look, say, make, seat, open · To what, where: way, eyes water, dog, chest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, soldier), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
4	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 look	advmod
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 look	advmod
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 look	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 way	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 way	det
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 look	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 soldier	det
16	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 make	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 make	aux
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 water	nmod:poss
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 water	compound
24	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 make	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 seated	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 seated	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 seated	nsubj
30	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 seated	obj
32	also	also	ADV	_	30 seated	advmod
33	upon	upon	ADP	_	35 apron	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 apron	det
35	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 seated	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 opened	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 opened	cc
38	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	parataxis
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 chest	det
40	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 opened	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past	You					tree rules
2	not look in a quote	infinitive	You not said here		that way		at the soldier = soldier; well property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the soldier					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make in a quote	future	you	your eyes water				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Product
5	seat	past	soldier	dog		then	upon the apron	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Value
6	open	past		the chest				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chest=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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